Vol 65 No 6 | NIGERIA Cost-of-living crisis forces government rethink 14th March 2024 Armed attacks and kidnappings, combined with food riots and looting, are putting President Tinubu and his inner circle under pressure The cost-of-living crisis is becoming the most serious political challenge facing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's government a year after it was elected. Whether it is maladministration and corruption...
Vol 47 No 19 | NIGERIA Pots, kettles and corruption 22nd September 2006 Allegations about President Obasanjo and his deputy mean a livelier if not cleaner election While President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice-President Atiku Abubakar sling mud at each other, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), an official anti-corruption body led by Nuhu Ribadu,...
Vol 49 No 25 | NIGERIA Crisis? What crisis? 12th December 2008 The world slump has made nonsense of the budget plans – and slashed expected oil revenues The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria says there is no need to panic, the country is adequately insulated from the global slowdown and will not suffer...
Vol 56 No 11 | NIGERIASWITZERLAND Cash for loot 29th May 2015 The Swiss lawyers who brokered Nigeria's much-criticised immunity-for-cash deal with Mohammed and Abba Abacha last July are major beneficiaries, it has emerged. The two sons of the late...
Vol 41 No 21 | NIGERIA Oduduwa's children 27th October 2000 Some of the fiercest opposition to President Obasanjo comes from his western region President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba, is a Nigerian first. His efforts to reestablish the nation after two decades of misrule are now at risk from violence involving its...